Essay 2 The author’s mother, Joy, and the other Moore’s mother Marry had very different styles of parenting, these styles of parenting would drastically affect their children’s life. In Moore’s Memoir…
Sweet Gum Slough Can you remember a time where something joyful happened? Most of us tend to cherish the joyful moments because it was once a time of happiness where nothing else mattered but that. In this essay, a little girl 's journey filled with joy during the 1930 's in Florida will be shared. She will meet new people that will bring out the best in her, mention her father’s journey about his beloved sport and World War I, and face difficult situations where she learned to face her fears and changes.…
Hulga, a well-educated, large blonde women crossly known as Joy Hopewell appears in, Flannery O' Connor, Good Country People as a thirty-two year old with an artificial leg. When Hulga was ten years old her leg was blown off in a hunting accident. She lived in the country with her mother, Ms. Hopewell, and her sisters, Glynese and Carramae, because of a heart condition she has. This bulging, impolite, squinty-eyed woman strongly professed to have believed in nothing, not even allowing her mother to keep a bible in the parlor. One day bible salesman, Manley Pointer came to their home for a visit, ultimately causing perplexity in thought as to whether Hulgas belief in nothing is pertinent.…
Nihilism, essentially, is the belief in nothing. There is no intrinsic moral system, nor is there any real point to our human existence. The concepts of “good” and “bad” are all but objective abstract concepts that are not a fundamental part of human nature. A basic understanding of nihilism is needed in the analysis of the main character, Hulga, in O’Conner’s short story, “Good Country People.” In the story, Hulga is a bitter woman in her thirties who lives with two Christian women who, in her opinion, are intellectually inferior to her.…
Good Country People The characters in Flannery O’Conner’s “Good Country People” hinder their growth and development as characters by accepting a specific identity placed on them by social standing and education, which ironically should have placed them above others in title. Mrs. Hopewell is considered and considers herself as an upper class landowner. She owns a successful farm and is of a high economic class, but she is still considered a hard worker. Everyone below her is divided into two categories: good country people and trash.…
Joy is the daughter of Mrs. Hopewell in “Good Country People”. Joy is a thirty-two year old who still lives with her mother on the farm. She has blonde hair and an artificial leg. Joy is also very highly educated. When Joy was ten she was in a terrible hunting accident that shot off her leg.…
In Flannery O’Connor’s Good Country People, a symbolic terrain of peculiar, deviant mis fits, and sometimes plain out good country people are troubled with dysfunctional family tribulations in which these same characters convey their own self-conflicting dilemmas. A direct link to the Gospels can be found in this text, in terms of dealing with redemption and salvation, ,and a constant battle between faith and intellect. The physical and bodily impairments the characters suffer from, specifically Joy, are a direct personification of the very same character’s lack of heart and benevolence. These very same flaws can be evidently found in the character’s beliefs and emotional behaviors, such as through either different ideologies, grounds of intimacy,…
Flannery O’Connor often uses her stories to teach a lesson, and her short stories “Everything that Rises Must Converge” and “Good Country People” are no different. “Everything that Rises Must Converge” tells the story of Julian who is accompanying his mother on a bus ride to her YMCA class. Julian is disgusted by his mother’s beliefs and constantly tries to “teach her a lesson,” but everything goes badly when Julian’s actions drive her blood pressure so high that she has a heart attack and (presumably) dies on the street. In “Good Country People,” a young girl named Hulga feels as if she is above everyone in her family, and longs to leave them far behind, until a young “Bible salesman” named Manley Pointer visits her home in the country. Julian in Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises…
I believe Joy changed her name as a defense mechanism to protect herself. If she was able to take away all the hope and good from her life, then that would mean that no one would be able to take from her and no one could hurt her. This change and recreation of Joy to Hulga was to protect her, but in the story Manly Pointer managed to penetrate her walls and bring them down to take her wooden leg. This tragedy will add to Hulga’s mistrust in the world. Manly Pointer left Hulga vulnerable and victimized she no longer was this woman who was very harsh to another and without emotion, no longer feeling educated and superior to others.…
Some traditions show that certain people must have certain roles in society. For example, today’s society puts pressure on the female to conform to fixed rules. They are expected to be seen, and not heard, while the man does all of the work. Two short stories that break these traditions are Good Country People, by Flannery O’Connor, and Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Good Country People is about a girl who does not conform to that society’s rules about women and is seen as odd by the people around her, even her mother.…
US Supreme Court clerk, successful lawyer, professional writer, proud mother, and loving wife; what else could Gretchen Rubin ask for? Happiness: she just wanted to be happier with her life. With that, she took an interesting approach to the situation; starting a year- long happiness project. Afterward, she wrote a memoir about her experience which had a very unique structure. Gretchen Rubin organized her literary work in a distinctive fashion to articulate the central ideas and purpose of her conquest: happiness.…
This feeling of defiance of what another person wanted affected her because she no longer did things because that was what other people wanted out of her. Joy did things because she wanted to. She followed her own path from then on and it created a enormous feeling of independence from everyone else around her. The memoir Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo is a novel riddled with pivotal moments in her life which altered her identity as well as how she saw the world around her.…
The Joy Luck Club (Two Kinds) Essay The Joy Luck Club centers on the theme of hope. This is articulated through interactions between mother and daughter, a mother’s hope for a better life for her daughter, and a daughter’s hopes to meet her mother’s expectations. Having dealt with hardships and struggles in the mother’s own life, she becomes so focused on giving her daughter a better life at all cost, but does not see the consequences of her actions. She is blinded by the possibilities and opportunities that America holds for her daughter, but her drive creates a gap of unawareness that the daughter’s dreams are not hers.…
Joy-Anna Duggar: A mind of her own with a perky and innocent personality Joy-Anna Duggar, having turned eighteen years old last October has reached the age of adulthood. As everyone knows one of the family traditions and responsibilities to consider is marriage. Over the past six months Joy-Anna has gotten a lot of attention about what her future intentions look like and whether she is excited or willing to wait before seeking and stepping into a courtship relationship. Joy-Anna or Joy has been described as “joyful” because it fits her perky personality as well as her name. She is a beautiful young lady who knows what she wants in life, isn’t falling for the pressures from her siblings into rushing into a relationship and did surprise family…
Although, “good country people,” are supposed to be those who do what is right over what is wrong, I, Manley Pointer, am no ordinary country person. I travel from town to town changing my name to convince people that I am one charming young man, only to con them out of what I want. I understand pretending to sell Bibles is wrong, but it is the right employment for me and I do a heck of a job at it. The people I do convince to buy from me are great people, just the belongings I want from them are even better.…